INTRUSION - A Keeno Crime Thriller: Keeno McCole doesn’’t give second chances

INTRUSION, the first book in the Keeno Crime Thriller novels, introduces Canada’s toughest crime fighter, Keeno McCole. Part Iroquois, part Irish, and a whole lot of attitude, Keeno, at the age of five, discovers the world has monsters in it, when his stepfather tries to murder his mother in front of him. Keeno drives a pair of scissors into the man and saves his mother’s life, but the experience forever changes him. His mother, fearing retribution from her ex, hides her son with her brother, on a remote farm in Ontario, and under the tutorship of his uncle, a veteran of the Korean War, Keeno leaves his boyhood behind and becomes a man; he learns the art of survival, how to fire guns, to street-fight, and moreover, to use throwing knives with deadly accuracy. His uncle recognizes something in the boy, that he will walk a different path, and he prepares him for that journey. By the age of eight, the platform is set for Keeno, who sets his sights on a career fighting the criminal element. Over the years, his skills and rocketing reputation in law enforcement, catches the eye of Canada’s foremost law enforcement agency, the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In the advent of 9/11, with talk of terrorists lurking around every corner, the RCMP creates RATU, the Royal Canadian Anti-Terrorist-Unit, and recruits McCole and his life-long friend and crime fighter, Jake Williams, to head up RATU. With two other brilliant forensic specialists added to the team, the unit becomes the tip of the spear taking on the big fish in the sea of crime. In INTRUSION, Keeno and his team go up against the perpetrators of a massive viral attack on Toronto, one designed to cripple the nation, and ultimately, hold Canada’s governance hostage with a brutal weapon, The God Chip.

＂Intrusion is a novel in the mold of James Bond ... it’s an alternative to Cussler...＂

＂Author, Réal Laplaine, without being apologetic tells a suspenseful tale with dialog as raw and true as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police characters, who attempt to thwart a plot of international proportion.＂ Nancy Lee Canfield, Author of A Rose for My Mother

＂Well written, exciting & very hard to put down...＂

I write thrillers in geopolitical, crime and sci-fi genres. I invite the reader to step outside the box of mediocrity, to entertain different perspectives, and possibly, even, to challenge the paradigms that have become accepted ＂norms＂ in our world.